My first reasonably serious attempt at finding dragonflies in Spain was in August this year, when we drove to Jalón to help a friend clebrate his birthday in early August and to take in something of the summer heat and…

Other than a worrying warning light the shape of which resembled our engine block, we completed our 1200mls/1900kms road journey from Calais, over the Pyrenees and on to Jalón (near Calpe on the Costa Blanca) smoothly. It has to be…

Given the atrocious spring weather being suffered by the UK this spring, we were delighted to be asked to pop over to Spain to look after our favourite perrito [little dog] and house in Jalón between 24th April and 11th…